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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
4 BIG LEASE.
Railroad and other Notes from NOR
folk and Portsmouth.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspatch.l
Nnnrnrr Innnnrr 30 1887


| Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspatch.l
NORFOLK, January %, 1887.
II is said that the New York. Phila
delphia and Norfolk Railroad Com
pany have leased the extensive wharyes
north Of the Boston wharf, known as
the Mccullough whares, for number
of wears. and will at once proceed to
erect spacious buildings for depot and
warehouse purposes. This company is
making various improvements III this
section, and it is evident Norfolk is 70
be an important point i'll their opera
tions.
The City Council of Portsmouth have
determined to embrace in the order of
election on the subscription Of $3.50, OO0
to the Atlantic and Danville road that
no part of the bonded debt Of the
Claremont and Hicksford road shall en-
ter into the Liabilities of the Atlantic
and Danville, as projected from Ports
mouth TO Danville; all stocks to be paid
in full, and the order of election to be
ratified by the directors of the road, as
making a contract with the city. 4
number Of prominent county gentlem
met Mr.. 1illar at the Ocean House yes
terday and submitted proposition to
make the terminus of the Atlantic and
Danville on the Western Branch.
The peanut market has been very ac-
tive all the week, and, with the inn
provement i'll prices. farmers goods
have literally been pouring into mar
ket. The factories are all working
heavy forces OF hands.
\ row among the oystermen in At
lantic City yesterday resulted III a ne
gro named Bill Spencer being very bad
ly beaten with a shoyel-handle. Two
of the Oystermen were arrested and
sent on TO court for assault and bat
terry.
The Clyde-Line steamer Pioneer
having repaired damages has sailed for
Philadelphia.
The captain of the distressed schooner
Delhi reports that on Wednesday last,
off Body island, the crew of the Kill
Devil life-saving station gallantly came
to his rescue III a surf-boat at the great
risk of their own lives, and in the very
teeth of a northeasterly gale, a snow
storm, and heavy sea. The captain
thinks it is one OF the most gallant acts
he ever saw.
Judge c. W. Murdaugh has for
warded the petition to Governor Lee
asking for pardon for eX-Cmef-of-
Police Stoakes, Of Portsmouth.
J. A. Goulden, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
editor of the EmcraN VmdicatOr DR..
j. d. Bussey, of Emmettsburg, Md;
Hon. Thomas McSheehy, Of Fremont,
Ohio, and John A. McGavy, of Balti-
more, grand officers Of the Emerald
Beneficial Association of America, will
arrive here so-morow on an official
visit to the Emerald Associations of Nor
folk and Portsmouth.
Two United States soldiers from Fort
Monroe were arrested last night for
stealing lot of clothing from a colored
man on Church street This morning
they were sent to Jail for thirty days
each by Justice Saunders.
Mr.. James Guy, who was designated
as United States boiler-inspectOr for
this district, has no appointments as
yet. q.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30

coupon-paying propcrty-owners to pro-
test against the proceedings OF the trea-
surer, and in the event OF q sale to
bring suit against the treasurer and hls
securities for damages. What will
be the result of his operations with the
bondholders' clients or upon the pro
ceedings of the treasurer will doubt
less be developed within day or two
Meantime Treasurer Bnnsford and his
bondsmen "don't scare worth cent,
and in the end the agent is likely 10
"get n Roland for his Oliver " every
time.
Not content with these suits, the
power OF. the United States Circuit
Court has also been invoked in behalf
of the bondhoIders. -Four bills of in
junction were granted yesterday by
Judge Bond restraining the treasurer
from selling the property of the Lynch
burg Gas-Light Company, James A.
Ford. Winfree Il Lloyd, and Mrs. Mary
VI. Brooks. The sums involved are
s5s3.94, 25135O, $3.50, and 1910, re-
spectively. kirkpatrick and Blackford
appearing for the two first-named par
ties, and Royal. Sands, and Bryan, of
Richmond, for the others. Following
is a copy of Judge Bonds order in the
case of the Gas-Light Company, which
illustrates the other three:
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE [ USIrED STATES FOR THE(
WESTERN DISTRICT or VIRGINIA. I
Mr.. Clerk. Set the motion for an injunction
In this cause down for hearing on the first day
Of the March term OF Circuit Court next ensu-
ing, at the courthouse In Lynchburg. at 10
o'clock A. NJ. or as soon thereafter as counsel
can be heard. and issue a restraining order re-
stnainne the defendant from interfering with
the property Of complainant In the mean time
I'm any way, as prayed In the bill. with leave to
the defendant. upon ten days' notice 10 the
complainant I'm writing 20 move to dissolve the
restraining order hereby granted.
HUGH l. BOND.
January %. 1857.
The subject of these suits, together
with the barratry cases, with their
probable or possible results, will doubt
less occupy much Of the months of
February and March in the respective
courts indicated. and serve then, as
now, as an engrossing topic OF specula-
tion.
Colonel J. Risque Hutter, for some
time a clerk in the revenue-office in
this city, has been promoted TO the po-
sition vacated by L. ID. Jennings, re-
Gently appointed postmaster. John
Whitehead succeeds Colonel Hutter,
and Thomas VI. Harwood is appointed
n clerk in the office rice Charles II.
Jennings, resigned. These appoint
ments were all made by Collector Shep-
perd at the instance Of Hon. John W.
Daniel
The fourth trial Of the negroes VIII
son Steptoe and Lewis Watkins,
charged with the murder of Lizzie Will
son at Roanoke on the night of the 4th
Of November, 1884, is set for the 14th of
February in the Corporation Court of
this city.
DR.. +. d. Jennings, the recently-ap-
pointcdpostmaster of this city, received
his commission yesterday and will AS
sumo the duties of the office next Tues
day, the 1st of February. 1t is under
stood that he does not contemplate
making any changes in the present
clerical force, which has given very
general satisfaction. Re-.
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s.iRMiStiENG
Preparatory 10 the Coupon Fight
in Lynchburg.

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch. J
LYNcHBURG, Jan. 30, 1887.
Skirmishing has begun all along the
line preliminary to the coupon war that
is about to burst upon the community
II will be remembered that in the mat
ter of coupon tenders this city is enti-
tied to the credit, if it be creditable, of
having presented more than any other
city in the State, in proportion to pop
ulation. This, too, despite the fact
that many of the bcst citizens repro
bated such action and pursued an en-
tirely different course. OF course these
coupons were not offered without the ne
cessary backbone being supplied by the
agents of the bondholders, who prom
ised protection and indemnity. The
evil day is upon them, in which these
promises are to be fulfilled. 1t was
stated in this correspondence in Thurs
days Dispatch that the city treasurer
had commenced to execute the law by
levying where coupons had been ten
dered for taxes on real and personal
property. To meet the exigency Mr..
w. W. Larkin, counsel for the parties,
applied for and obtained injunctions
from Judge Latham, of the Corporation
Court, restraining the treasurer from
selling the property of the thirty-two
parties.
Many of these iniunctions were
granted for ridiculously small sums
one being for Sc, and others for S11.62,
s14, 2l5, $40, &c. The largest of them
was between 500 and $500, but the
general average was from $50 TO $50.
a ludicrous feature of the business con-
sists in the following entry, which |
found on the chancery memorandum
book, written at right angles with the
names of the parties and extending
nearly the whole length of the page:
Summons in chancery, with an in
junction TO February rules. Coupons
rendered for writ-rax. w. w. Larkin."
Inquiry of the clerk as to what he
proposed to do elected the laconic re-
ply, "If my costs are not paid in
money there will be no suits" The
treasurer alleges that he has made
no levies without the consent of the
parties levied ON, the property levied
on being gdesignated by the owner. And
now appears upon the scene an agent
Of the b0ndholders, who was here all day
yesterday engagedin an effortto get the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
The Little Children that arc Gone.


Why do they come, these little ones
that enter our homes by the gateway Of
suffering, and that linger with us few
months, uttering no words, smiling IN
a mysterious silence, yet speaking elo-
quently all the time of the purity and
sweetness of Heaven? Why must they
open the tenderest fountains of our ma
lures only to leave them so soon chOked
with the bitter tears of loss? 1t is i'm
possible wholly to answer such ques-
tions of the tortured heart, but one
can say, in general, that these little
temporary wanderers from celes-
tial home come and go because Of the
great love of God. 1t is an ines
Unable blessing to have been the pa
rent of a child that has the stamp of
Heaven upon its brow, TO hold it in
ones arms, to minister to it, to gaze
fondly down into the little upturned
face, and to rejoice in the unsullied
beauty of its smiles, and then-to give
il back to God at His call, with the
thought that in Heaven, as upon earth,
it is still our own child-a member of
the household still, TO be counted always
as one of the children whom God hath
given us. Such a love chastens and
sanctifies the hearts of the father and
mother, carries them out beyond time
and sense, and gives them hold upon
the unseen. As things of great value
always cost, it is worth all the sorrow TO
have known this holy affection and to
have this treasure in Heaven.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
An Incident ofthe War.
TO the Editor of the Dispatch:


When L. J. Jackson was wounded at
Charlottesville, May, 1863, amessenger
came to my company asking for four
men and litter to take wouAded man
to the rear. Being in command of my
company at the time, though uncom-
missioned, l called for the men, but
found that only one litter could be OBJ
tained. J.J. johnson, of Fuvanna ceun-
ty, stepped forward with his litter,
which he had brought all through the
fight, and profered his services. He
was sent forward with others for the
wounded man. In less than thirty min
utes the party came back bear
ing our beloved jackson. Just as
they reached the Confederate hes
Yankee battery opened upon
us, and, a shell exploding near them,
j. J. johnson was very severely
wounded, having his left arm broken,
besides receiving other painful injuries.
Johnson fell at the extreme right of his
old company, and cried out as he fell:
Thank God, | fall in the discharge of
duty !" Mr.. johnson was a good and
true soldier, and as l have never seen
any mention of this fact, / thought it
due so noble man 10 make mention of
it. Mr.. johnson is still in Fluyanna, /
think. How glad / would be to see
him have some recognition as one OF
the brayest Of the brave. Were il in
my power would have him pensiened
Literally as long as he might need it.
May the Lord make him as true to His
Kingdom as he was to the Confederacy.
w. j. CoCKE.
81. Albans, W. Va., Jan. q, 1887.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
ARTISAN WELLS.

A telling feature of West Point is
their system Of Artesian wells, by which
the unhealthy and unpleasant-tasting
surface water OF the past has been dis
placed 10y an abundance Of gushing,
hmpid, healthy water, which pours III
generous profusion from already no less
than 125 spouts located throughout the
town and about the wharves-three or
four even spouting up in the river.
The developments made 10y these sub
terranean explorations have been quite
interesting. The borers, at the depth
generally of 1l2 feet, strike a strata OF
white sand, from which there is flow
of clear sulphuric water, which possesses
medicinal properties and has cured con
firmed dyspeptics. AT about $50 feet Il
very hard whitish shell-rock is reached,
which is about ten feet through.
From tthis strata strong stream
of clear, tasteless water rushes to
the surface througe two-inch pipe, III
volume and power sufficient, If two or
three of them were united, 10 turn a
mill. This is the water used by the
citizens and the railroad company, and
when new house is erected the first
thing that is done is to sink well, and
in a day or two, at an expense OF about
$50, the man has an overfowing foun-
tain of pure water. Nor has the at
tempt to get water failed yet in single
instance. White shells from this strata
as large as half a dollar have been
thrown up through the pipes. An ex-
ploration has been made still deeper,
and at the depth of 322 feet third
strata of pretty blue, white, and brown
pebbles was encountered, from which
also flowed bold, clear stream of soft
water.
A courious thing about these Artesian
wells is the effect upon them produced
by the tides. The stream is much
bolder when the tide is at flood, and
conespondingly decreases in power
when at its ebb. The explanation of
this is left for your scientific readers,
though it is thought here that the out
lets to these underground water cur
rents are far out in the bay or the sea
where they come in contact with the
tides.
A STEAM FERRY.
This place being hedged in between
the Mattaponi, Pamunkey, and Yord
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
Arrest of nm Alleged safe-Biower.

T"PF'IHI
LuRAY, Va, January 29.-The Dis
patch contained a notice a short time
since of the blowing open by burglars
of the iron safe in the Office of j. n.
Jamison, gsin-dealer and broker, Of
Luray. Last night G. o. Rhodes, a
resident Of this place, was arrested and
charged with the offence. He was
committed to jail, and at the prelimi-
nary examination to-day was sent on to
await the action of the grand jury.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
An ldiOfie Pastime.

He: / was discussing tobogganine
with your friend Miss Smith last eve-
ming, and l was surprised TO learn, Miss
Ethel, that she considers the sport silly.
She: Yes, dear Clara's nose turns red
mon the slightest exposure TO cold.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

Every precaution is taken here against
fire as well as theft. There is a CON
slant patrol of watchmen day and night
all along the wharves and great rail
road-sheds. and a regularly organized
fire department, in the pay Of the rail-
road company, provided with water
plugs, fire apparatus, with buckets
and fire-extinguishers placed at conye-
nient intervals along the whole line Of
the docks; and the watch Is so strict
that a man with a lighted cigar can
never cross the line which divides the
town from the company's grounds.
This is as il should be-, and at once i'm
presses the visitor with a sense of Sc
curity and confidence in the manage
ment.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30

The statue of General Burnside at
Providence is finished, and gives great
satisfaction. II will be publicly un-
yelled some time in the coming spring.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
COTTON-COMPREss.

A big thing at the wharf is the $40,
eco cotton-press of George Ii. McFad-
den & Brother, superintended by Ed
win Wilkinson, Esq, mayor of West
Point. During the present season about
0,0O0 bales. which is about 20, 900
ahead Of this time last year, have been
received. pressed. and nearly all of ii
shipped 90 various points in this coun-
try and Europe. The working Of this
ponderous machinery, by which bale
of cotton is pressed into nearly one
third its original size by the great til-
teen-hundred-ton press, Is most inter
esting. The practical utility Of this
work is evident when you see steamer
slowing away 5000 bales where before
not more than 1000 could be packed.
The sampHng, weighing, nnbanding
rcbagging, rebanding, pressing, NOV
ing, all goes on rapidly at the same
time. from 600 to 500 bales a day going
through the compress, and employing
another battalion of clerks and Ia
borers, which again adds to the activity
of this place.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
A TEMPERANCE TOWN.

The experiment West Point hasmade
with local option has been very satis-
factory. Drunkenness and disorder
have been much diminished and the
condition of the negro greatly i'm
proved. They are now thrifty and bet
ter clad, some of them working at the
docks making as much as $40 a week.
The citizens say that rs it takes three
fifths vote to return to license the town
will never get back to it, and its future
prosperity is assured. NOX.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
T01uh0N EGS7ney.

TORCHON EDGINGS Of our own importation
at 10, Is. ~, %. and Jc. apiece-all excel
lent goods for the price;
An immense stock Of HAMBURG EDGINGS
and INSERTINGS;
PRIDE or THE WEsr COTTON az iOc. yard
for tho genuine article:
Double Width HOMESPUN SUIIING al a.. a
yard worth &c.;
200 boxes Of FirstQuality NOTE-PAPER a.
l5c. a box worth 950.
Extra Quality CREAM LINEN DAMAsK for
TABLECLOTHs at lsc. yard-would 10
cheap at CO.. LEVY 4 DAVIS
See our cheap SMYRNA RUGS jazz
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
A BIG BUSINESS.

The business is rapidly increasing,
and the tonnage of freight handled
here, amounting to hundreds Of mil
lions of pounds last year, is an increase
Of 800 per cent. over the business of
seven years ago. In the one item of
cotton the Office report here shows up
TO this time the receipt of 1SO, 900 bales
this season-an increase of 10000 over
the number received at this date last
year-and there are some months yet
to the close of the season. The month
Of November alone showed receipts of
5000 bales, and some days as many as
1000 would roll in. To carry on all
this business, with the handling of the
immense amount of miscellaneous
freight Of every conceivable descrip-
ton, requires IA large corps of clerks
and assistants and an army of laborers,
making a payroll Of about coo men.
with a weekly sum total paid Of about
81, coo. Everything works with Won
derful system and regularity, the whole
business being under the supervision of
the general freight and claim agent,
+. Ii. Adams, Esq.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
A Busy SCENE.

The scene at the extensive docks
here is always busy, bustling one.
Long, heavy freight trains, and ocean,
bay, and river steamers, are constantly
loading and unloading. All day long
the place is alive with the roar Of the
running trucks, the shouts of the steve
dores and clerks as they direct the army
Of laborers, the whistle of locomotives
and steam-vessels, and the hustle of
landing and departing steamers while
night is turned into day with the glare
of the electric lights.
The New York steamers which ply
here are the Seneca, Roanoke, Guyan-
dotte, and Richmond; from Boston,
the Allegheny, Johns Hopkins, George
Appold, and Blackstone and from
Baltimore, the Danville and Baltimore.
making six trips week, constituting a
daily line in summer And among the
river steamers is the natty little Robert
E. Lee, of the Mattaponi, which is
almost as popular with West Pointers
as its illustriOus namesakc WAS.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
THREE CENTS PER COPY.

ticiesi Al the commencement Of tho seslins-or
We had tremendous stock, and our sales have
been such A. to greatly dcpie,c a. Yethhss
not been sufficiently reduced; Where goes for
more siaughters:
sweet Toilet soaps, weighing four ounces 70
the cake. three cakes for ten cents, or doDn
for
A onc-doglar bo.tle Of The very best Bay Rum
fos
Old Transparent sslycarine Soap, sitho1t
perfume and most elegant soap. Weare seii-
ing hfteen-cent cake for
De.
Tetlow's swans-Down, either pink or white
for
Violet and Rose Toilet and Baby-powiers
for
A ifty-csnt bottle u the very best Bay Rum
for
The genuine Cuticura and Glenns sulphur
Soaps for
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30

DICHMOND MARBLE WORKS,
III corner seventh aud Grace. ESPECIAL NO
TICE: Having only fifteen days moro 70 dispose
OF my FINE MONUN ES1s aud iiEADSt0SkS,
| will sell them 81 The following rs<iuced
f30 for ti7S; Headsiones Of Si2o for as: 6rsn-
lte Headsiones AZ ESQ for 500; Aiso, Cradles
and Headstones for children from Sis 20 go
Messrs. wALLES a wkAY viii, after the ex-
pired term, conduct the marble business here.
ja 292ts l. r. SANDS
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30

rivers, is at a great disadvantage Tor
land compunication with the ad.
Joining counties, access TO King and
Queen and New Kent being only had
bv sail and row-boats across several
miles of water. A steam ferry is much
needed. and it is said that arrange
ments have at last been almost per
fected by wealthy Maryland capital
ist who bonght ninety-eight town lots
here last night, TO shortly put on q
steam ferry-boat.
IMPROVEMENTS.
There is hosiery factory here which
is doing good business, working about
twenty-five hands, and other manufac-
turing enterprises are proposed, among
whichis planing-mill, w. II. Ruark, Of
WestGver, Nd, proprietor, and sri-
mac-factory, Wilkinson d ElphiDston
proprietors, both Of which it is expected
will get under way during the spring or
summer, and viii help the town much.
RICHMOND INVESTING.
The West Point Land and Improve
ment Company, new corporation here,
is composed chiefly of Richmond men.
The president is Colonel A. s. Buford.
with T. b. Henley, of West Point, Sc
cretaIy and treasurer. Among the
Richmond corporators are Messrs. Jo-
seph Bryan. j. 7. EllysOn, George II.
Poindcxter, Il. II. Cardwell, John Ma
honey. Hill Carter. VI. NJ. Gillian.
John n. Gresham, Drs. Hunter Me
Guire and Jud. y. Wood, and Hon.
John l.. Hurt, Of Pittsylvania. They
have a paid-up capital of si3, 800, and
own over ], 900 lots in the place. Prop
erty is increasing in value here, and the
place bids fair to be an important town
and valuable suburb OF Richmond.
As an evidence OF the inquiry
in this direction after lands it may be
stated that the real estate agency here
has since November, 1884. sold fifty
seven farms in this section, more thar
three fourths Of the buyers being
northern men, while inquiries come
from New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas,
Maryland, New jersey, Missouri, and
Montana investors, and the country and
town promises to fill up largely with
northern and western settlers, TO whom
the cheap living on fish and oysters and
the good bathing on the beach are
great and unusual inducements.
A TEMPERANCE TOWN.
The experiment West Point has made
with local option has been very satis-
factory. Drunkenness and disorder
have boon much diminished and the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30
A PUSHING PLACE.
WEST p0IHT-iTs GROWTH AND ITS
PROSPERITY.
Large Railroad 0perations-Bustle on the
Docks -Artesian wells-Electric
Lights-Local Option.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispa;ch.l
WFsT POINT, January 80, 1887.

WFsT POINT, January 80, 1887.
West Point, for some years past a
pushing, growing little town, has yet
grown vastly in importance of late as
the deep-water shipping point of the
great West-Point Terminal Company,
recently grown to be one of the great
trunk lines of the country. So much
has your correspondent during a few
days sojourn here been interested and
impressed with what he has seen that
he feels constrained to put the result
Of his observations down in "black
and white for the entertainment Of
the DisD0fch readers. When it is
known that the great railroad system
centreing here measures 4, 100 miles.
with termini at Augusta, Ga, Birming
ham, Ala, and Brunswick, Ga, and
extending its line to the Mississippi
river, and striking down into the heart
Of King Cotton's dominions, including
/ ,020 railroad stations, the reader will
not be surprised to hear of large opera
tons here, and will be prepared to ex-
pect great things in the future,
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